K-type star · orange
Felis
Felis is an orange in the constellation Hydra 614 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,707 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 327× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 614 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3923 · HD 85951 · HIP 48615
3,707 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
327× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
614 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
327×
the Sun's light output
-1.44
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.